Campus Watch

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, Feb. 10
— The University of Notre Dame’s sponsorship of a seminar and film festival
that showcases presenters who openly oppose Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality
is an “abuse of academic freedom” because it gives “no place … to the
presentation of Catholic teaching,” wrote Bishop John M. D’Arcy of Fort
Wayne-South Bend, Ind.

“Freedom is always linked to truth,” wrote Bishop D’Arcy.
“What about the rights of the Church to have its teachings properly presented?
What about the rights of parents?”

Bishop D’Arcy concluded his column with quotations from
the Catechism of the Catholic Church that call for compassion for homosexual
persons while clarifying that homosexual acts do not “proceed from a genuine
affective and sexual complementarity. Under no
circumstances can they be approved.”

Catholic Issues

THE SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD, Feb. 4 —
LeMoyne College will establish the Sanzone Center for Catholic Studies and Theological
Reflection with a $1 million gift from Francis Sanzone,
a 1964 graduate of the Jesuit college.

The center will host lectures and programs addressing
Catholic issues. It also will work with Contemporary Catholic Trends, an
ongoing polling project that has tracked the beliefs and opinions of U.S.
Catholics since 2001.

New Site

GAINSVILLE TIMES, Feb. 10
— Southern Catholic College has picked a new site for its campus and officials
believe it has paved the way for the school, founded in 2000 with an original
start date in 2003, to open its doors Sept. 8 of this year.

The school has closed on a 100-acre site in Dawsonville,
Ga., that once served as Gold Creek Resort, and features nine buildings that
were once used as resort accommodations and will be used as student residence
halls.

The college has also recently hired four key executives,
three vice presidents and one dean.

New Head

ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC COLLEGES
& UNIVERSITIES, Feb. 12 — Richard Yanikoski,
president of St. Xavier University in Chicago from 1994-2003, has been named
president and executive director of the association, known by the acronym ACCU.

He will succeed Monika Hellwig,
effective Aug. 15.

Prior to his service at St. Xavier, Yanikoski
was the associate vice president for academic affairs at DePaul University,
also in Chicago.

Yanikoski acknowledged that financial
constraints are significant challenges to private colleges, and that “secular
pressures” tend to weaken Catholic identity. He said the “future demands continuous
vigilance and effort.”

‘Unacceptable’

CHRONICLE.COM, Feb. 12 — Canisius College Athletics Director Timothy Dillon and his
assistant, Marshall Foley, have resigned over the handling of an incident in
which the men’s hockey team, on a road trip to North Dakota, conducted a party
with alcohol and trashed a hotel room, injuring a player, reported the Web site
of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Canisius President Father Vincent Cooke
said an investigation by the Jesuits’ Buffalo college found that there had been
a lack of supervision on the trip, and that the response of the two officials
had been “completely unacceptable.”

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